The judges were drawn to the crisp, colorful façade and fine interior detailing of this LEED-Platinum building. Serving market-rate and low-income buyers, the concrete structure sits on a street corner, its two volumes addressing different solar orientations and contexts.

A lobby canopy and deep shaded balconies reinforce the residential scale of the south-facing quieter street, while the volume along the western arterial edge reads as a wall punctuated by geometric solar shades. Both are covered in integrally colored cement-panel rainscreens abstractly composed in three shades of yellow.